Monday’s panel talk will be an open discussion, in the spirit of an AMA (ask me anything), where you can ask your most pressing questions about how research is conducted at a high level.
Students early in their Ph.D. or thesis-based master’s program are often faced early on with long-term decisions and no clear answers:
The objective of this seminar is to help make connections with experienced students who have been through it before so they can provide more than one perspective on how these decisions can be approached. Feel free to bring questions of your own.
Russ Nelson is a US Army operations research/systems analyst (ORSA), former Army aviator, and current Ph.D. candidate in the Operations Research Program at NC State. His previous roles have included assault helicopter company commander, Army aviation doctrine developer, and assistant professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point. Prior to joining NC State, he worked with statisticians in creating designs of experiments and conducting statistical analysis at the Army Evaluation Center in support of the Army Test and Evaluation Command. Upon graduation from NC State, he will return to an assistant professor role at USMA.
Satya Paramita is a Ph.D. Candidate in OR under the direction of Dr. Osman Ozaltin. She has been involved in several projects during her Ph.D., including health scoring system development and evaluation, examination of medical surge during the COVID-19 pandemic and assessing the impact of law-enforcement drug seizures on overdose mortality.
Margaret Tobey is a Ph.D. candidate in the OR program. She is advised by Dr. Mayorga and Dr. Ozaltin and expects to graduate this summer. The group collaborates with a counter-human trafficking nonprofit to develop risk prediction models that can assist in human trafficking investigations and serving victims. Methods include natural language processing, interpretable machine learning models such as risk scoring systems, and geospatial analysis.
Ekin Yalvac’s research focuses on the interface of operations and economics. He is currently working on the optimization of sustainable energy transfer and storage systems and the network design of autonomous delivery systems.
